FITCHBURG — Over the weekend, a fire on the fourth floor of an apartment building displaced over two dozen people on Day Street in Fitchburg and another fire forced school officials to close Leominster High School on Monday. A three-alarm fire broke out at 35 Day St., a four-story brick apartment building known as Hotel […]
Fitchburg Fire Department
Space heater, smoking materials possible factors in Fitchburg 3-alarm fire
FITCHBURG — Fire officials said that the 3-alarm house fire — which injured three occupants and a firefighter on Sunday — started on an enclosed rear porch where a space heater was in use, according to a release from Fire Chief Dante Suarez and State Fire Marshal Jon M. Davine. The Fitchburg Fire Department responded […]
Crews battle 3-alarm fire in Fitchburg
In frigid temperatures at 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning, Fitchburg Fire personnel, with assistance from area fire companies, began battling what turned into a three-alarm fire at a two-story residence at 153 Ashburnham St. in Fitchburg. At roughly 10 a.m., according to dispatch reports, all crews were pulled from the building. No information on the occupants […]
Man trapped under MART bus that smashed into terminal
FITCHBURG — Police are still investigating an incident involving a MART bus that crashed into the downtown bus terminal on Thursday morning, requiring a specialized extraction to free a man trapped underneath the bus. At about 8 a.m. on Nov. 14, police say that the Montachusett Regional Transit Authority bus had crashed into the intermodal […]
Remembering the Sept. 11 attacks on 23rd anniversary
A brief but moving Sept. 11 remembrance ceremony was held in the city on Wednesday morning. Members of the Fitchburg Fire and Police departments, Fitchburg State University Police, city officials including Mayor Sam Squailia, and community members gathered at the Sept. 11 memorial located at 33 North St. to pay tribute to the thousands of […]
A whale of a time
FITCHBURG — Delilah the whale surfaced in the city on Monday. The life size inflatable North Atlantic right whale travels around to events and schools bringing awareness to her endangered species as there are fewer than 340 of them remaining. Delilah is used by the nonprofit organization Whale & Dolphin Conservation to educate people on […]
